{"id":255876,"date":"2020-05-23T04:35:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T08:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255876"},"modified":"2020-05-23T04:35:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T08:35:50","slug":"canada-will-accept-incomplete-study-permit-and-pgwp-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/23\/canada-will-accept-incomplete-study-permit-and-pgwp-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada will accept incomplete study permit and PGWP applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_255877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255877\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/selective-focus-photo-of-man-using-laptop-1438081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-255877 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/selective-focus-photo-of-man-using-laptop-1438081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/selective-focus-photo-of-man-using-laptop-1438081.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/selective-focus-photo-of-man-using-laptop-1438081-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/selective-focus-photo-of-man-using-laptop-1438081-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/selective-focus-photo-of-man-using-laptop-1438081-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some international students can\u2019t submit all the required documents for their study permit or\u00a0Post-Graduation Work Permit\u00a0application, so Canada is keeping their files open until they can. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>New IRCC updates allow flexibility when applying for study permits, and Post-Graduation Work Permits<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some international students can\u2019t submit all the required documents for their study permit or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/post-graduation-work-permit-program.html\">Post-Graduation Work Permit<\/a>\u00a0application, so Canada is keeping their files open until they can.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-14438\"><\/span>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/coronavirus-covid-19-impact-canada-immigration-visa-border-latest-news.html#gs.74964i\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a>\u00a0has forced many application centres to close or limit their operations. As a result, some study permit applicants are unable to complete three essential components of their application:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>giving biometrics;<\/li>\n<li>having medical examinations; and<\/li>\n<li>submitting their original travel documents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In light of the circumstances,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/immigration-refugees-and-citizenship-canada-ircc.html\">Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada<\/a>\u00a0(IRCC) says they will not refuse study permit applications that are missing documents as a result of coronavirus service disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they will keep the application open, and continue requesting additional supporting documents, or necessary actions until either they receive the documents or are provided proof that an action has been taken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New IRCC updates allow flexibility when applying for study permits, and Post-Graduation Work Permits Some international students can\u2019t submit all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":255877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration","mauthors-shelby-thevenot","mauthors-cic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255878,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255876\/revisions\/255878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}